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Extract from the Ballycarry and Glenoe Travel Guides:
BALLYCARRY
is the site of the remains of the first Presbyterian church ever to be built in Ireland,
Templecorran
, with a memorial to its first minister, who was ordained in 1613. The
church
's graveyard contains the tombs of some of the supporters of the 1798 Rebellion, including that of James Burns, whose cryptic gravestone can only be deciphered using the following key: the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 represent the vowels "a", "e", "i" and "o" respectively, and 5 and 6 the letter "w". Another United Irishman, James Orr - better known as the Bard of Ballycarry...
read the whole Ballycarry and Glenoe Travel Guides...
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